Somebody asked me today if I was all ready for Christmas?

Someone asked me that, today. Madness. My niece (40) put her Christmas tree up 2 weeks ago. I can't stand all this, so early.

It's getting ridiculous. I start to look out for ideas around the end of September as I have to spread the cost but decorations etc can wait until mid-December. Everything gets put away before New Year too. I like Christmas but I don't want it to last for a couple of months.

But what exactly is there to “be ready for”? That would have been my response and they would need to be more specific in their question anyway.
Do they mean gift buying and wrapping?
Card writing and posting - ha! That’s a joke given the cost of postage stamps!
Placing the order at the butchers perhaps?
Sending invitations to relatives we rarely see to come for dinner knowing full well that they’ll bring nothing as a contribution, stuff their faces, won’t help with the clearing up and then moan about the food on their drive home………but they accept every year and never consider reciprocal invitations.

Christmas is far too commercialised now but that’s just my opinion .

It’s all so silly, as if we have to be ready for this like it is some kind of life changing event like giving birth or moving house.
A friend of mine once said with great pride that she had all her Christmas presents bought and wrapped and put away in August. I really don’t have the energy or inclination to devote that much planning and time to what is effectively one day in the year. It just makes Christmas one big chore.

It's all a bit batty! I went to post a parcel to NZ today. I paid a small fortune for postage and suggested it might even arrive in time for Christmas.
The postmistress replied rather solemnly that yes there was a chance it could.

It seems to start earlier each year.